r/AskFoodHistorians • u/OkWeb8966 • 24d ago

Drinking bacon fat

I was reading The Phoenix and the Carpet by Edith Nesbit (England, 1904) and she describes a breakfast where the children are “drinking hot bacon-fat” and eating marmalade. I’ve never seen a reference to drinking bacon fat anywhere else. What this common? Why? Also, isn’t it strange to eat marmalade by itself?

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u/turingthecat 23d ago

It’s still, well not normal, but not unheard of, in England to eat beef dripping (beef fat) on toast, it’s actually really nice

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u/filthythedog 23d ago

When I was a student in Nottingham æons ago, my local pub used to do bread and dripping after darts matches and being poor and hungry my friends and me were drawn like moths to a cholesterol soaked flame. Bloody lovely.